Ignorance : how it drives science / Stuart Firestein.

  • Firestein, Stuart.
Date:
[2012], ©2012
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"Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Firestein takes the novel perspective that Ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

viii, 195 pages ; 19 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A short view of ignorance -- Finding out -- Limits, uncertainty, impossibility, and other minor problems -- Unpredicting -- The quality of ignorance -- You and ignorance -- Case histories.

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    Medical Collection
    Q175.32.K45 2012F57i
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ISBN

  • 9780199828074
  • 0199828075